Holy Prayers in a Horse's Ear: A Japanese American Memoir

Originally published in 1932, Kathleen Tamagawa’s pioneering Asian American memoir is a sensitive and thoughtful look at the personal and social complexities of growing up racially mixed during the early twentieth century. Born in 1893 to an Irish American mother and a Japanese father and raised in Chicago and Japan, Tamagawa reflects on the difficulty she experienced fitting into either parent’s native culture.

Author(s): Kathleen Tamagawa
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2008-02-18
Pages: 219
Categories: Literary Criticism